[Comprehensive] Professional Blocker

Chapter 4 PSYCHO-PASS #04

As Li You said before, he couldn't lift his right hand at all, but this didn't affect Makishima Shenghu—he used his left hand to skillfully hold the chopsticks, eating noodles slowly, and the delicious taste of the food made him feel happy Squinting his eyes, he even regretted that he couldn't concentrate on enjoying the food at this time and had to be distracted to observe Li You's current situation.

Li You eats at a very steady pace. How much he eats and how many times he chews each bite is controlled by precise data. Noble.

After the meal was over soon, Li You neatly placed the used tableware on the tray, raised his eyes and stared coldly at the young man who had been peeping at him unscrupulously for a long time.

Cooperating to stop eating, Makishima Shenghu slightly adjusted his sitting posture, leaned back lazily on the back of the chair, with a leisurely smile on his lips, "As for the return you promised, I really want to know the meaning of 'equivalent'." Standard."

"Your unfamiliarity with the environment proves the inevitability of my assistance in prolonging your life. Then," his eyelids were half closed, and the dim light left fine shadows in his golden pupils, and there was a brief pause , indicating the weight of the facts about to be revealed, "Are you going to repay me with your life?"

"Are you asking for my opinion?" As if he didn't hear the contemptuous words that were tantamount to demanding his life, Li You said with his usual indifferent voice expressionlessly, "I thought you would be more self-willed."

After finishing speaking, he picked up the tableware and walked to the counter to start cleaning, not noticing the slight stagnation of the steady breathing of the young man who was left behind him for an instant.

In the ensuing answers, the atmosphere of playfulness seemed to be more intense, "It's a very pertinent opinion to act willfully."

This time Li You didn't answer right away, in the suddenly silent space, only the running water could be heard hitting the porcelain tableware, making an almost brisk sound that was incompatible with the current situation.

Then, after he returned the tableware he had used to its original position with extremely strict requirements, he finally turned around, with a serious attitude as if he was swearing to the gods, "Yes, if you are worth it."

——Do you want to repay me with your life?

—Yes, if you are worth it.

The answer came out a little out of bounds.

"Can you even measure the weight of your own life calmly?" Makishima Shenghu smiled calmly, the light in his pupils gradually became thinner and colder, and the joy pouring out of the cold tone was unprecedentedly clear. "Suddenly I'm interested in your bottom line."

Responding to him was Li You's steady walk, which was drifting away, and stopped abruptly with the sound of a crisp door closing.

……

Neither disappeared in Bermuda, nor encountered a large sunspot eruption——Li You pondered for a long time about the reason for crossing, but failed to come to an effective conclusion.

At this moment, in the basement of LEO's villa, he looked indifferently at the weapon assembly line that had been officially declared deserted not long ago.The fully automated equipment guarantees low cost, and is engaged in this kind of high-risk work of "maximizing profits". The owner here has spent almost all his thoughts on making money and saving his life, although his original purpose was to To prove his true ability as a bastard and exiled by the family.

Of course, he will re-enter here, not because he wants this body to return to his old business, but because almost all the high-end electronic products in this villa are set in this basement.

Li You dropped the mouse in his hand, moved his stiff fingers a little, leaned on the back of the chair and raised his hand to press the Jingming acupoint, but the brows were locked even tighter.

"A Brief History of Time", "Full Unsolved Mysteries of the World Deciphered"... On the opened webpage, several books of the same kind were marked, indicating his whereabouts during the day.After wasting the whole day for no reason, he stood up a little annoyed, and after weighing the pros and cons of calling Makishima Seigo, or going bungee jumping from the crater of Mt. Very sensibly took out the phone.

Even though it was two o'clock in the morning, the call was answered quickly.

"Sorry for the interruption." Before the other party could speak, Li You, who was in a bad mood, went straight to the point, "Are you free now? I have something to ask... Of course, it's paid labor."

……

"You are really not welcome at all." The young man who pushed back the sleep time and waited quietly on the sofa said indifferently.He seems to be very interested in Freud recently. His slender fingers slowly rubbed the spine of the book, tracing the gold-plated letters of "Ego and Id". laugh.

The bright yellow light that fills the room makes him look like a luminous body, soaked in the immaculate nobility, graceful and elegant - when facing the toys he is interested in, Makishima Shenghu has always been gentle and patient, and has a good temper. However, Li You, who was treated peacefully like this, obviously has no self-knowledge to give in.

Already depressed and irritable, Li You's complexion was hopelessly gloomy as he walked through the passage with no guarantee of cleanliness for the fourth time within 24 hours.

He stood in front of Makishima Shōgo, with an upright posture like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath, staring coldly at the front without saying a word.

The other party's eyes were not in focus, apparently thinking about something, Makishima Shenghu simply put down the book, leaned on the back of the chair leisurely, raised his hand lazily brushing away the forehead hair that blocked his sight, and said at the right time: "Mr. Let's talk about your pay."

"...Ten glasses of tomato juice." This was Li You, whose brain was temporarily insufficient, and decisively blurted out the first thing that came to mind.

"...Huh?" The young man's movements froze slightly, and then, the golden pupils gradually filled with interest, "Yes."

"...you are really a good person." Li You said seriously.

"Your arguments are always so interesting." The drawn-out ending seemed to be sighing, and Makishima Shōgo showed a smile that was not a smile, "Then, let's get to the point."

……

Li You, who quickly got to the point, asked questions as simple and rude as ever: "Are you really giving your life and death to that 'machine' called the SIBYL system to decide?"

"A fair society that does not rely on human beings, but is maintained by machines..." As if repeating some advertising slogan, Makishima Seigo's words were a little vague, until the corners of his lips curled up in a mocking arc: "Machines decide life and death, In a sense, it is true, is there any doubt?"

Thinking of the whole day of getting nothing, Li You's voice became a little colder, "I want to know your opinion."

"I think," the young man leaned back, raising his face with a gentle smile, "maybe it will be very long."

"Then make a long story short."

When he officially spoke, the smile on Makishima Seigo's face had completely disappeared. It was the indifference of a noble god looking down on ant-like human beings without a trace of emotion.

"I think that people are only valuable when they act according to their own will. I want to see the brilliance of the human soul and confirm that it is a truly noble thing, but," he stood up and walked to the window. The holographic projection outside the window created The vegetation is the same as during the day, and it is still full of vitality. "PSYCHO-PASS, crime coefficient, good and evil in this world are measured by the value measured by the machine as the standard. The soul is so simple that the machine can completely dissect it, without asking yourself. will, and only live according to the oracle of SIBYL, is the present human being really valuable?"

When he finished speaking, he turned around and looked playfully at Li You who was still paralyzed.

For a moment, there was silence between the two of them.

"Then what do you use to judge good and evil? To you, killing is just a game to challenge the SIBYL system. Is your doing good or evil?" Li You frowned, pausing slightly, The sudden large amount of explanations made him a little at a loss, "Because I am used to the SIBYL system's judgment on you - the constitution of exoneration, so I feel that it is completely correct to arbitrarily decide the life and death of others. If you are like this, you are also surrendering to SIBYL. under."

Makishima Seigo did not respond immediately.

His eyes gradually darkened, revealing an expression of discovery of novelty and great interest, "Ah, that's it, questioning the system with the power given by the system, it's an interesting insight."

"...Don't act recklessly." The alarm sounded in his heart, and Li You suppressed the urge to rub his temples and began to persuade him. The current methods are already very powerful, and there is absolutely no need to change another way to challenge SIBYL.

He silently looked at the other party's killer... No, it was washing and blowing, recalling the other party's incomprehensible fashion-antisocial personality disorder, the emergence of this disease, the shadow of childhood has a great influence.

"In order to resist the mere system, I also put myself into it." When fighting monsters, he also became a monster. "If you don't cherish yourself like this, your parents won't feel bad."

"Don't you cherish yourself, I really enjoy this game called life. Every fairy tale needs a villain, maybe that's how I position myself." Makishima Shenghu said expressionlessly, coldly There was no ups and downs in his voice, and his formulaic tone was like a theorem in a book, "As for parents, if you mean 'family affection', it is just an interpersonal relationship based on blood. In an era where systematic planning survives, groups are no longer needed, and any talent can be replaced, fetters are meaningless."

...Just say that you have given up treatment.

Wanting to see the light of the human soul, but ignoring the life as the container of the soul, is because of being abandoned by SIBYL, and he has no real sense of being a human being, let alone experience the emotions that human beings should have.

"Those who don't know are innocent." Only people like Li You can say this kind of words.

"What you said before is just my personal opinion," Li You didn't intend to persuade Makishima Shenghu to turn around, everyone is blind and has no qualification to remove the leaves from anyone's eyes, Li You paused, "I'm here to prove something."

Human beings who created machines and were supposed to use them are willing to let machines dominate and take it for granted. Even if they flourish and decline, this kind of degeneration is too absurd.In 2109 AD, ideology and art are still stuck a hundred years ago, and academic research has not made much progress. Although there are sufficiently advanced science and technology, they are all used in the direction of restricting the development of human civilization. Such a future It was so hard for him to believe that he doubted whether the source of this world was really the SIBYL system, so he came to confirm it.

"Thank you." Li You said. All in all, it's good to avoid the trouble of free falling in the crater of Mount Fuji. "You should have seen the true face of the SIBYL system."

There is a grand dark color behind it, and the pure white youth by the window is made even more holy. He lowers his eyes slightly, and his slender eyelashes suppress the dark light in his pupils. True, "Unfortunately, no."

"..."

Surrender to a machine he has never met? Li You was a little curious about SIBYL's true face.

"It's very late." After learning the information he wanted, he said goodbye decisively, "I will replenish you with tomato juice in the future. Drinking too much before going to bed will affect the quality of sleep."

However, Makishima Shenghu didn't mean to let him go, "Why, are you interested in SIBYL's true face?"

"Probably." Li You replied quickly, walking towards the exit without stopping, until Makishima Shenghu said the next sentence as if nothing had happened——

"Pursuing the origin of this world, do you want to find a way to go back?"

Li You stopped suddenly, turned around slowly, Ru Ye's pupils became darker, "...What did you say?"

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